The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Center for Information Systems Security (INFOSEC) Studies and Research (NPS CISR) invites experts in the field of INFOSEC to NPS to lecture on computer security. Other universities, government, and non-government organizations need similar lectures. Two problems arise: experienced security practitioners are few in number and cannot spend a considerable amount of time on the lecture circuit. Also, for many institutions a regular lecture series would be too...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Umentum, Bart J., NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA, *DATA MANAGEMENT, *DATA...
The 11 papers in this collection were presented at a symposium that was jointly sponsored by the Wilson Foundation and the Nebraska Library Commission. The papers are: (1) "The Small Library in an Era of Multiple Transformations" (Michael Marien); (2) "Community Needs and the Rural Public Library" (Don A. Dillman); (3) "Looking at Rural Libraries Through Rose-Colored Glasses" (John Houlahan); (4) "Planning for Community Change and the Librarian's Role"...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Cooperative Programs, Distance Education, Futures...
This report presents results of a user-based evaluation of a prototype Electronic Information Delivery System (EIDS)-based simulation called the Reserve Component (RC) Armor Junior Leader Tactical Training Program. The simulation was developed to support individualized tactical training of RC armor platoon leaders and sergeants. Four platoon leaders and four platoon sergeants from the 116th Armored Cavalry Brigade of the Idaho ANG participated in the evaluation. Each soldier worked through the...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Jones, Donald R, CAE-LINK CORP ALEXANDRIA VA LINK TRAINING SERVICES DIV, *MILITARY...
This manual provides documentation and guidance for users of the public release data file for the School Safety and Discipline component of the 1993 National Household Education Survey (NHES:93). Information about the purpose of the study, the data collection instruments, the sample design, and data collection and processing is presented. The NHES:93 was a random digit dial telephone survey of households developed by the National Center for Education Statistics and conducted by Westat, Inc. For...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Discipline, Elementary Secondary Education, National...
This document which covers the proceedings of the 1989 International Symposium on Information Technology, begins with several opening ceremony messages and includes the following papers: (1) "Reflections on International Bibliographic Standards" (Winston D. Roberts); (2) "Bibliographic Control from the User's Perspective" (Ruth A. Pagell); (3) "Some Current Problems in International Standard Book Numbers for Bibliographic Control" (Cosette Kies); (4) "CONSER:...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bibliographic Databases, Cataloging, Cooperative Programs, Foreign Countries,...
This compilation of resource materials is prepared for teachers and support staff who either have units on homosexuality in the sexuality curricula and need some additional information or who need to have resources at hand to answer questions from students or staff. The strong opinions around issues related to homosexuality mean that school staff must be as well informed as possible. The first section of the resource guide lists 39 resource organizations for networking about homosexuality...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bisexuality, Curriculum Development, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary...
In the fall of 1995 the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) held a conference to stimulate dialogue about future developments in the fields of education, statistical methodology, and technology and the implications of these developments for the nation's education statistics program. This paper summarizes and synthesizes the results of this conference and a study the NCES undertook to clarify its responsibilities over the next decade. An introductory section provides a synopsis of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Data Collection, Educational Administration, Educational Research, Elementary...
This paper describes "Microcomputer Applications for Educators," a course at Fontbonne College for pre-service teachers which introduces the educational applications of the computer and related technologies. The course introduces students to the Macintosh computer, its operating system, Claris Works 4.0, and various other educational and personal software packages, and provides students with the knowledge and skills of how to use the Internet as a teaching and research tool. Each...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Cooperation, Educational Technology, Elementary...
Recreational reading has proved its importance in the public library systems nationwide, as confirmed by circulation records and significant consideration in library budgets, indicating the need to develop systems that bring the book and the reader together in a systematic way. This paper seeks to define the operation of readers' advisory programs and services in Ohio public libraries by providing a status report, attempting to show how many public libraries have formal readers' advisory...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Budgets, Librarians, Library Circulation, Library Services, Library Surveys, Public...
The Family Literacy: Aid in Reading (FLAIR) program was a project of the Blanchard Community Library (Santa Paula, California), conducted during fiscal year 1992-93. The project involved recruitment, retention, public awareness, basic literacy, tutoring, computer assisted, employment oriented, and English as a Second Language (ESL) programs. The project served a community of 25,000-50,000, and targeted the learning disabled, workforce/workplace learners, migrant workers, and ESL learners....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Computer Assisted Instruction,...
Thesis advisors, Nancy C. Roberts and Mark W. Stone
Topics: MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND CONTROL, USER NEEDS
Contents: Engineering Description of Computational Program: Computer Functional Description: and File Documentation.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Brown,Bobby J, ARMY ENGINEER WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION VICKSBURG MS HYDRAULICS...
This research investigates the ways people learn from multimedia and how navigational patterns can be incorporated into the design structure. The paper begins with a discussion of present navigational research and then presents the results from the initial empirical work, including a pilot study of primary and secondary children using multimedia and a main study that looks at the ways adults use multimedia. A new classification for navigational patterns, developed from information in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer...
The objective of this 12-month exploratory development was to develop a general-purpose, digital, large-scale integrated circuit device, called the programmed image-processing element (PIPE), which can be programmed to perform a variety of signal-processing functions such as Cosine and Hadamard transforms, edge extraction, unsharp masking, pole-zero filtering, and signal smoothing. The PIPE devices can operate on 8 x 1 or 3 x 3 element data blocks. The PIPE LSIC is suited for those airborne...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Cheek,Tom F, TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC DALLAS CENTRAL RESEARCH LABS, *IMAGE PROCESSING,...
The overall objectives of this analysis were originally specified as (1) to estimate the percent of MHSS eligible beneficiaries who do not use the MHSS; (2) to determine why they do not use the MHSS; (3) to estimate the percent of MHSS eligibles who have health insurance comparable to MHSS; (4) to determine how and why they acquire this health insurance coverage; (5) to determine the relationship between non-use of MHSS and Health Insurance coverage; (6) to determine the type of health...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Orend,Richard J, HUMAN RESOURCES RESEARCH ORGANIZATION ALEXANDRIA VA, *MILITARY...
This is a highly graphic user-oriented interactive software product which will assist the user to become more proficient at recognizing and employing Navy signal flags, and pennants which are used for visual communications between naval vessels of all types. A tutorial portion of the program has been designed with a number of options, thereby allowing a user to tailor a recognition program to satisfy specific learning requirements. The program is also capable of graphically displaying any...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Bien,Jay Kent, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA, *NAVY, *OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS,...
This document supplements the briefing on IFCAS provided to the LSS group on 29 June 1983. It contains the documentation on the IFCAS. Section 1 of this document provides a functional capabilities summary of the Indirect Fire Casualty Assessment Processor. The processor itself is detailed in Section 2.0. Attachment A provides illustrations of Indirect Fire Casualty Assessment Processor Data Structures.
Topics: DTIC Archive, DeGraf,William B, SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INC LA JOLLA CA, *Information systems, *Data...
This document was prepared under the supervision of the Office of Aviation Policy and Plans of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). It provides technical documentation for the FAA's report, Airport and Airway Costs: Allocation and Recovery in the 1980s,' (FAA-APO-87-7). This volume provides a brief overview of the Cost Allocation Model and instructions on how to use the model. Individual files and data bases comprising the model are also described. Keywords: Public finance, Airport and...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Taylor, Daniel E, FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON DC OFFICE OF AVIATION...
The initial study was designed to test the user interface for gathering data about problem solving, test our choice of problems, and gather verbal protocols that could be compared to the user-interface action sequences collected by the system. Ten subjects were drawn from the Pitt into physics class for science and engineering majors. Each subject was first introduced to the system and taught how to use the editors to solve problems. They were also shown how to call up any of the ten example...
Topics: DTIC Archive, NAVAL UNIT FORT DETRICK FREDERICK MD, *INTERFACES, PHYSICS, TEXTBOOKS, ONLINE...
The preliminary pollutant limit value approach has been used to assess soil and water contamination at several U.S. Army installations. This report documents the adaptation of this approach into a software computer package, the Pollution Hazard Assessment System (PHAS). PHAS, programmed in BASIC code, is capable of being handled on many personal computer configurations and can be supported with a system with 640K memory, two-disk drives, a monochrome monitor, and a line printer. PHAS has been...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Small, Mitchell J, ARMY BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LAB FORT DETRICK MD,...
A process framework for the front-end of product development was developed. The framework covers the process space from an initial need (or recognition of need) to the decision for a product/development program launch. The framework focuses on the activities required for the development of requirements needed for an investment decision. The framework was developed through a thorough examination of the literature relating to product development and addresses not only the activities required to...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Wirthlin, Joseph R, AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH, *MANAGEMENT...
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is an ongoing, congressionally mandated national survey of the knowledge, skills, and understanding of young Americans in major subjects usually taught in school. This document is a guide to the files of the first NAEP Trial State Assessment (1990). The Trial State Assessment collected information on the mathematics knowledge, skills, understanding, and attitudes of a representative sample of about 100,000 students in public schools in 40...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases, Educational Testing, Grade 8, Junior High...
The 1998 High School Transcript Study provides the U.S. Department of Education and other educational policymakers with information regarding current course offerings and students' course-taking patterns in U.S. secondary schools. Similar studies were conducted in 1982, 1987, 1990, and 1994. This guide documents the procedures used to collect and summarize the data. It also provides information needed to use all publicly released data files produced by the study. In previous years, the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Academic Records, Core Curriculum, Course Selection (Students),...
RADHOT is a one - dimensional Lagrangian radiation-hydrodynamics computer code developed from a scheme described by John Zinn of LASL. The transport scheme described by John Zinn and Incorporated into RADHOT requires just two passes thru the mesh to determine fluxes and energy deposition rates. The scheme assumes local thermodynamic equilibrium for each cell, and also assumes that the thermal radiation flux contribution in a given direction at any point has one of two values depending upon...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Wade,Douglas P, AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING,...
Computer Center CDC Libraries/Utility (Programs), CLIB/U, is a reference manual which describes the programs in library UTILITY on the CDC 6000/Cyber 74 computers. These programs are utilities such as tape and disk dumps, listers, selective copies, document generators/printers, card reformatters, library maintenance. CLIB/U lists programs by functional category and alphabetically with a descriptive title. All machine-readable documents detailing the use of thes programs are included. (Author)
Topics: DTIC Archive, Sommer,David V, DAVID W TAYLOR NAVAL SHIP RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER BETHESDA MD...
This is the documentation of a program that permits the analyst to choose any one of three priority rules of schedule activities under conditions of limited resources. The program is written in FORTRAN. We give the logic of the programs, a flowchart representation, and a printout of the instructions (upon request). Also, a solved sample problem is included. This program is available at a nominal fee from the Graduate Program in Operations Research, NC State University, PO Box 5511, Raleigh, NC...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Elmaghraby,S E, NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIV RALEIGH OPERATIONS RESEARCH, *COMPUTER...
In the scheme of an integrated decision support system, model management holds a position comparable with data management. Unfortunately, the development and formalizing of model management techniques historically have lagged far behind data management concepts, although the increased interest in spreadsheets has rekindled an interest in models as productivity enhancing tools. Model management systems offer one way of integrating models into the overall structure of an organizational...
Topics: DTIC Archive, O'Dell, David D, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA, *DATA MANAGEMENT, DECISION...
As a result of this Phase I research program, we were able to develop a unique workstation which will enable the user to easily interact with the relevant neural network technologies. The Tutor for Underwater Signature Analysis (TUSA) can predict a user's intentions and will provide assistance in an intelligent manner. Along with its intelligence, the system's other strength is its flexibility. TUSA can adapt or can be modified to suit the user's needs. In Phase I, we designed a framework which...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Greenwood, Dan, NETROLOGIC INC SAN DIEGO CA, *UNDERSEA SURVEILLANCE, *ACOUSTIC...
This report has described the results of a study undertaken at AER to identify and implement a state of the art nonlinear retrieval approach to characterize line of sight variability of atmospheric thermal and constituent environments. This path characterization capability was designed to interface with the existing Geophysics Laboratory (GL) line-by-line radiance/transmittance code, FASCODE. Accomplishments of the study include: (a) a review of the relevant literature concerning potential path...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Isaacs, R G, ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INC CAMBRIDGE MA, *ALGORITHMS,...
The purpose of this task was the modification of the Group 4 Validation System Software to conform to the CCITT Blue Book Recommendations governing Group 4 Facsimile equipment. The Group 4 Validation System was developed in accordance with the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) 7-layer architecture. With the release of the CCITT Blue Book Recommendations, the Application/User interface, the Application Layer and the Presentation Layer were either defined and/or significantly changed. In...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Perschau, Stephen, DELTA INFORMATION SYSTEMS INC HORSHAM PA, *INTERFACES, DOCUMENTS,...
Contents: Speakeasy Overview, Antenna Subsystem of the Speakeasy Program, Vehicular Conformal Antenna, UHF ECCM Techniques, Survivable Adaptive System Technology, Adaptive Network Planning and Management for the Localized Network Environment, Soldier's Computer, User Interface Technology, Lower Echelon Command and Control, Tactical Multinet Gateway for the Localized Network Environment, Fiber Optic Technology, Information Security, and Modeling Simulation.
Topics: DTIC Archive, ARMY COMMUNICATIONS-ELECTRONICS COMMAND FORT MONMOUTH NJ, *FIBER OPTICS, INDUSTRIES,...
Two software drivers have been written to control a digital-to-analog (D/A) converter on a PDP-11/45 minicomputer. One driver is a stand-alone program which outputs user specified data to the D/A converter at a user specified rate and scale factor. The second driver is a FORTRAN callable controller where the calling program specifies the data buffer, rate, and scale factor. This report is a user's document describing the procedure for using the controllers. (Author)
Topics: DTIC Archive, Carlberg,James R, DAVID W TAYLOR NAVAL SHIP RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER BETHESDA...
Chaosnet is a local network, that is, a system for communication among a group of computers located within about 1000 meters of each other. Originally developed by the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory as the internal communications medium of the Lisp Machine system, it has since come to be used to link a variety of machines around MIT and elsewhere. This memo describes both the hardware and software protocols. It is intended to be the definitive documentation for Chaosnet. (Author)
Topics: DTIC Archive, Moon,David A, MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LAB,...
The Interactive Application Program, which will be referred to by IAP, has been designed to generate a BATCH job (consisting of a control card record and data input record) reporting on the DMSP data base and/or in copying part of the data base. The BATCH job is necessary because the data base is on several tapes which cannot be hung interactively. The respective reporting and copying modules are described herein. (Author)
Topics: DTIC Archive, Cronin,E, BEDFORD RESEARCH ASSOCIATES MA, *COMPUTER PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION, *DATA...
This report summarizes MPDC activities for the period 1 January 1981 through 31 December 1981, a total of 12 months, under Contract DLA900-79-C-0539. It provides a summary of the scope, objectives, and organization of MPDC, its information processing products, and services, and a discussion of management objectives. The report focuses on the accomplishments and operation of the mechanical properties numeric database and the continuation of the products and services of the Center. (Author)
Topics: DTIC Archive, Mindlin,Harold, BATTELLE COLUMBUS LABS OH, *Information centers, *Technical...
A contract was awarded to a licensed reloader to reload 250,000 government-furnished, once-fired .45 caliber cartridge cases. The reloaded cartridges were subjected to performance, safety, and user evaluations. Simultaneously, the economic practicality of substituting reloaded cartridges for new cartridges was evaluated. Technically, it was found to be feasible to use reloaded cartridges for training purposes, but an Economic Analysis demonstrated that it was cheaper to buy new cartridges which...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Brunton, Loren F, ARMY ARMAMENT MATERIEL READINESS COMMAND ROCK ISLAND IL LOGISTICS...
This paper is concerned with providing automatically generated on- line explanations to the user of a functional computer subsystem or tool about what the tool can and cannot do, what parameters and options are available or required with a given command, etc.. The explanations are given through the COUSIN interface system which provides a cooperative tool-independent user interface for tools whose objects, operations, input syntax, display formats, etc. are declaratively represented in a tool...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Glasner, Ingrid D, CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE,...
This Note summarizes the commands of the ROSS language. ROSS is an object-oriented programming language currently being developed at Rand. The goal of ROSS is to provide a programming environment in which users can conveniently design, test and change large knowledge-based simulations of complex mechanisms. Object-oriented programming languages, and ROSS in particular, enforce a 'message-passing' style of programming in which the system to be modeled is represented as a set of actors and their...
Topics: DTIC Archive, McArthur,David, RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA, *PROGRAMMING MANUALS, *ARTIFICIAL...
Any industrial economy is limited in what it can produce by its natural endowments, its labor force, the state of its technology, its productive plant capacity and the exchange it makes of some of its output for that of the other national economies of the world. The value of its gross national product relative to its population is one measure of the economic well being of a nation. Within the institutional framework of an economy, the value of any one final good or service is basically...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Taliaferro,Richard T, AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF...
Established in 2005, the Hong Kong Maritime Museum (HKMM) is a relatively new private museum that aims to collect all forms of materials related to the development of boats, ships, maritime exploration and trade, and naval warfare on the South China coast, as well as its adjacent seas. The Museum not only serves as a unique platform for teaching and learning of the local heritage in Hong Kong, it also contributes greatly to the promotion of community engagement and social connections. ...
Topics: HKMM, Hong Kong Maritime Museum, Library-Museum Collaboration, Operational practices, User needs.
Source: https://www.jlis.it/article/view/8916
Our continued success or failure depends on really knowing our customers, especially our core customers. Why? Core customers represent the single best source for our continued growth. To put this into perspective, look at the core customers' impact on UTIC's FY 2000 business results. Core ETIC users accounted for 86 percent of all document orders, 86 percent of total billing and 48 percent of all full-text downloads. To successfully achieve this important purpose, it is imperative that we gain...
Topics: DTIC Archive, DEFENSE TECHNICAL INFORMATION CENTER FORT BELVOIR VA, *SURVEYS, *USER NEEDS,...
The purpose of this guide for abrasive selection is: through proper abrasive selection shipyards can improve productivity, reduce waste, and decrease the costs associated with abrasive blast cleaning. Abrasive blasting is generally acknowledged to be the most effective and efficient means of surface preparation. Blasting accounts for about two-thirds of the cost of the surface preparation and coating operation, which is itself, a major cost component of shipyards. The wide variations in types...
Topics: DTIC Archive, PETERSON BUILDERS INC STURGEON BAY WI, *PROTECTIVE COATINGS, *CLEANING,...
Robotics is a fundamental enabling technology required to meet the U.S. Army's vision to be a strategically responsive force capable of domination across the entire spectrum of conflict. The U. S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) Tank Automotive Research, Development & Engineering Center (TARDEC), in partnership with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, is developing a leader-follower capability for Future Combat Systems. The Robotic Follower Advanced Technology...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Jaczkowski, Jeffrey J, TACOM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER WARREN MI,...
In the past few years, concepts of the digital divide and theories of access to ICT have evolved beyond a focus on the separation of the "haves" and the "have nots" to include more than just physical access to computers. Researchers have started considering the conditions or criteria for access and broadened the concept by including additional components. Terms such as "real access", "thick conceptions of access" and "social inclusion" give some...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Technology, Access to Computers, Access to Information, Models,...
This paper presents a list of operational deficiencies facing military planners in the era of dynamic targeting and provides a discussion of potential solutions identifying technical issues needing to be resolved in order to meet operational needs within the information age. The paper outlines and discusses a notional solution enabling real-time re-tasking and reallocation of airborne assets through utilization of information integration within an enterprise solution. The enterprise framework...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Gizzi, Jr , Nicholas, SPACE AND NAVAL WARFARE SYSTEMS COMMAND SAN DIEGO CA, *COMMAND...
This report summarizes the experiences of users of the microfiche, touch panel, and audio devices. Though not an evaluation of hardware design, the report surveys user opinions on device characteristics, the effort and skills needed to use the devices, and potential difficulties.
Topics: DTIC Archive, Francis,Larry, ILLINOIS UNIV AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN COMPUTER-BASED EDUCATION RESEARCH...
This final performance report provides project outcome information and data to the U.S. Department of Education for the federally-funded Library Literacy Program. The Santa Clara County (California) Library Reading Program Computer Aided Literacy (CAL) Project involved recruitment, public awareness, training, basic literacy, collection development, tutoring, computer assisted programs, and English-as-a- Second Language (ESL) programs. It served a community of over 200,000 people, and targeted...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Computer Assisted Instruction,...
Users' expectations of libraries are changing as they find and obtain more information directly from the Web. To better understand how usage patterns are changing, the Digital Library Federation (DLF) and Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)commissioned Outsell, Inc., to conduct a large-scale study of undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members from a wide range of academic institutions. This report includes 158 of the 659 data tables, a few summary observations, and a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Libraries, College Faculty, Data Collection, Higher Education, Library...
The NAVSTAF Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based navigation system under development by the Department of Defense. Satellites transmit a precise (P) code and a clear/acquisition (C/A) code which are used to calculate satellite to user range. Ranges from three or more satellites are then used to determine the user's position. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has two identical receivers, each of which is capable of tracking either code. The purpose of...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Bailey,Gregory D, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV LAUREL MD APPLIED PHYSICS LAB, *Global...
This thesis presents the design and implementation of the Intelligence Database system. A database management system must be used in Intelligence System in order to increase end-user productivity, decrease staff effort, enable the work to be done more efficiently, and permit end-user management more authority and responsibility. The Semantic Database Model was chosen as the method for designing the database. The SDM is a high-level semantics-based database description and structuring formalism...
Topics: DTIC Archive, Jang,J E, NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA, *MILITARY INTELLIGENCE, *DATA...
